![]() ![]() ![]() Reading is looking at words and imaginging them. "I argue in my book that a good novelist is both naive and sentimental at the same time. Meanwhile, in his just released book of essays Pamuk draws on German poet and playwright Friedrich Schiller's famous distinctinon between "naive" poets -who write spontaneoulsy, unselconsiously - and sentimental poets: those who are reflective, emotional, questioning and alive to the artifice of the written word. ![]() ![]() When asked about what his true love was Pamuk responded with a grin, "I have secrets too but there are some secrets that everybody knows." The interviewer pointed to Desai and said, "The secret is sitting in the first row." The author who has previously acknowledged Booker winner Indian writer Kiran Desai as his companion and dedicated his new book to her did not want to speak much about their relationship. His latest book is a collection of literary essays from the Charels Eliot Norton lectures he delivered at Harvard in 2009. Pamuk, the author of Snow, My Name is Red, The Museum of Innocence and other works was awarded the 2006 Nobel Prize in Literature. I prefer to write about Turkey only," the 58-year-old Turkish writer said during an interaction programme in the capital last evening to launch his new book The Naive and The Sentimental Novelist, published by Penguin India. "I will stay in Turkey, more so in Istanbul. ![]()
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